Benchmarking, or the analysis of operational costs, productivity, and service levels in a comparative context of market standards, is a firmly established management tool. 

This is the first in an annual series of reports highlighting trends in the structural quality of business applications regarding characteristics such as robustness, performance, securit y, and changeability. 

The Corporate Executive Board IT Budget Benchmarking Survey assess IT spending,  staffing, and outsourcing levels at more than 175 organizations globally, representing roughly US$38 billion in IT spend. Download for the latest IT budget trends. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now. 

Find out what's fact and what's fiction about virtualizing your Exchange Server. What steps should you take, and how can you ensure success? Explore all these questions and more in this e-book. 

The tech chasm that has allegedly formed in the workforce created by a cross-generational 1divide  – between those who grew-up with technology and those that didn’t – is vastly overstated. 

This whitepaper discusses recommendations for embarking on a fact-based approach for selecting servers for hosting modern applications based on workload attributes. In addition, learn about hybrid cloud computing, a technology aimed at addressing the various challenges encountered in scaled out distributed computing implementations. 

Cloud computing can, in fact, be a risky proposition. Check out this white paper to learn how to ensure your organization's safety while harnessing all the benefits of the cloud. 

This white paper separates cloud facts from fiction to help you gain a better understanding of what this technology really means for your enterprise. Uncover the truth about the top cloud myths and review the answers to common cloud-related questions. 

The pressure to improve data center efficiency is nothing new. In fact, this demand has been growing for over a decade. This resource describes the key elements of effective IT management and compares the offerings of two key players in the market. 

Disaster recovery (DR) shouldn’t be left on the back burner until a natural disaster strikes. In fact, around 80% of network disruptions are a result of IT architecture complexity. But for many organizations, virtualization is an economical DR solution. This e-guide addresses the benefits of virtual disaster recovery. 

Virtualization is mainly associated with servers, but in fact, storage systems are really the vital factors that determine deployment success. Access this white paper to learn how to optimize your virtualization deployment through storage efficiency. 

As organizations begin implementing server virtualization, it is critical that they consider the fact that backup and data protection processes will need to be done differently and may become more complicated. This DCIG analyst report discusses methods of effectively protecting data in virtual environments and the different solutions available.